What do you do when your fifty thousand dollar assassin 's availability is suddenly called into question? For Detective Andrew Daisley, the options are few.

Having already led his small group of tainted police officers past all lines of legality, he makes the unwise decision to take them a few steps further.

In a desperate attempt to remedy their situation, his team of morally conflicted mavericks scramble to locate a replacement to perform the unsanctioned execution they now find themselves responsible for. Less than two days from a deadline that threatens more than their careers, they have one final chance to complete the task.

The crude undercover officer; the mercurial detective; the emotionally fragile patrolman--each struggles with pieces of their past, hoping to bring their thirty-six hour odyssey to a successful conclusion.

Due to circumstances that are constantly beyond their control, "success" could have many interpretations.

Once-noted psychologist, Dr. Beverly McGrath, has dropped off the radar. Likewise, her psychiatric colleague, Dr. Perry Burgess, has watched his own career languish for the same reason. Interest in the subjects of their expertise has faded. They were old news. Fortunately, a horrifying revival of their previous pursuits has given the pair a second chance. The escape of their former patients, two notorious celebrities of the federal penal system, has reopened doors that have been closed to them for over a decade. A deadly repeat of past crimes presents opportunity amid the tragedy. For Floyd Madison, the equally diminished bounty-hunter who had put an end to a similar rash of killings fifteen years earlier, the chance to resurface is enticing. Like the pair of formerly famous therapists, he too is in dire need of a return to the spotlight and will go to great lengths to achieve it. The authorities and public alike can only watch helplessly as Spencer James Stoning, the narcissistic spree killer and Stanley Lewis Hewitt, the mentally deficient serial killer, take their own violent trip down memory lane together. With a few simple murders, they would all be newsworthy again.